PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2723, 18 March 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. A. L. .Herdman, Attorney. General, Mrs. Herdman, and Mr. J. C/ullen (Commissioner of Police) left Napier on Saturday by motor-car foi Taupo.

Sir Francis Dillon Bell on Tuesday o ceiling held a conference with repre-. Ejntative Kaipara men, and explained the Recruiting Board's wishes. The Minister's views wero warmly received, and the board's suggestions unanimously approved, Sir Francis is accompanied by liis daughter, Mrs. Johnston.

The Rorann Catholic Bishop of Auckland, Dr. Cleary, leaves next week for Rome. The trip is being taken partly on the advice of the Bishop's medical advisers. Dr. Cleary expects to return at the end of the year.

' Superintendent J. O'Donovan, of Wellington, being the only candidate nominated, has been elected a member of the Public Service Superannuation Board, to represent the Police Department, in succession to Superintendent J. Ellison.

Lieut. E. D. H. Stacker, of the sth (Wellington) Regiment, who has been attached to the King's Liverpool Regiment for many months pa6t, has just received a temporary appointment to the Staff. This news has been communicated hy cable, and will be received with pleasure by Lieut. Stacker's friends in Wellington, where he is well known as a member of the Supreme. Court staff. Lieut. Stocker has been through • some of tho fiercest fighting on the Western front, having taken part in tho action at Loos, and experienced the winter privations of trench warfare.

Mr. Philip O'Donnell was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court yesterday by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), on the motion of Mr. Hoggard.

Mr. James Miller Cook, a prominent resident of Gore, is dead, at the age of 75. Before settling in New Zealand. 46 years ago, he served in the Royal Navy, and in the mercantile marine. He leaves a family of eleven daughters and a 6on.

'Mr. Thos. Foster, of Mokoreta (South* land), and a native of Launceston, from which place he removed to New Zealand in the early days, is dead.

Mr. 'Hill M'Gowan (a cousin of the late Hon. James M'Gowan, a former Minister of Justice) died recently in Gisborne. whero he had lived for 43 years., He was 74 years of age.

Mr. Frederick L. Espinall, District Land Registrar at Napier, formerly of AYellington, died at Taradale on Wednesday, at the ago of 49. He was a solicitor in England before coming to Now Zealand twenty years .ago.

Mr. Stephen Trevalla, of Cobden, Westland, is dead. He was born in Cornwall seventy-two years ago, and far thirty years had been in the Now Zealand railway service. >v He - retired on superannuation a considerable time ago. Mr. Gordon J. Reid, who has just been appointed assistant manager for ■New Zealand of the Commercial Union Assurance Company, Ltd., was presented last-'week by the members of the inspection department of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Acency Company, Ltd., for the Union Assurance Society, Ltd. (of which he was supervising officer), with a case of silver-mounted brushes, while the branch managers gave him an oak canteen of cutlery, and silverware. •

Lieutenant. H. A. Cooper, of the Royal Flying Corps, has been promoted to a cantaiucy by the Imperial authorities. Captain Cooper is still on active service at the front in France. Advice to this offset has_ been received by His Honour Mr. Justice Cooper.

Mr. A..M. Lewis, of Thomson, Lewis, and Co., who bus been spending a holiday in the south, has returned to Wellington.

.Second Lieut. J. St. J. Hindmarsli, son of Mr. J. Hindmarsh, Napier, has been promoted to the rank of First and appointed A.D.C. to Srfgadier-General Evans. Lieut. Hindmarsh, who is in the Royal Field Artillery, has been at the front in France since the beginning of November last. Major G. A. King, who, has been placed in command of the Pioneer Battalion (the Maoris), which General Godley has just formed in Egypt, is a son of Mr. Geo. King, of Christchurch. When war broke out he was Staff Territorial Officer at Hamilton, Waikato, and went out with the Auckland Mounted Rifles, of the Main Body. He was wounded and sent to England, subsequently being,promoted major. He was born in Christchurch, and educated a» Christ's College, and became captain r the College Rifles. On leaving schofii/ he went for experience shepherding o» Waitohi Peakß Station, _ and then fot further > experience in survey work in. Hawke's Bay, after which he went to his father's station intheNelson district. He was for 6ome time in charge of the Waikato district, extending from Ka-whifl-i on the West Coast, to Opotiki and Tauranga on the East Coast —right across the island. This is the greatest Maori district in-New Zealand, and he came a good deal in contact with the Maori .neople in his work. _ Half the Maori Reinforcements are being posted to the Pioneer Battalion.